The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for left hip degenerative changes and lumbar degenerative changes at L4-L5 and L5-S1, finding no competent medical evidence linking these conditions to his military service.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence relating either disorder specifically to the veteran's service.
- Claimed conditions
- left hip degenerative changes, lumbar degenerative changes at L4-L5 and L5-S1
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 13, 2005
- Citation
- 0527630
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- Partly granted
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- Denied
The Veteran's claims for increased ratings were denied as his conditions did not meet the criteria for higher disability ratings under applicable VA rating criteria.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for headaches as secondary to service-connected major depressive disorder and tinnitus was granted. The effective dates for the grants of service connection for lumbar spine degenerative arthritis, right hip strain with degenerative changes, right hip thigh impairment, left hip degenerative changes, and left hip thigh impairment were all set at April 13, 2010.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's chronic pain syndrome is related to his service-connected disabilities and grants service connection for this condition.
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